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Taxes allow us to help our homeless, put money into environmental energy, and provide better education

We are currently in the midst of a literacy crisis and an environmental crisis. However, our tax dollars shouldn't go to other countries. Specifically Israel. We are not the United States of Israel.

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 @BC4B4ZB from Indiana  agreed…3mos3MO

Our tax dollars shouldn't go to other countries when there are matters that need to be addressed in our country.

 @BC3WTBL from Pennsylvania  agreed…3mos3MO

I do agree, but I feel like the taxes truly don't neccessarily go towards what they're said to support. The government needs to implement taxes going towards education and towards the homeless to help the drought of people living on the streets and more people getting the basic education that they need.

 @BC3K298 from Missouri  agreed…3mos3MO

Yes, our taxes should not be aiding and making another country's citizens live leisurely. It should be used to aid our homeless population, aid our low-income families, fixing our streets, and giving us better healthcare. Our government wants the women to repopulate the country but make the process of just birthing alone cost up to millions while giving israel free healthcare. We could give multiple people the chance at going to college with lower tuition but again, our money is spent on either israel, or bombing other countries to the point it would take them decades to make a come back.

 @BC3JGMQ from Florida  agreed…3mos3MO

I agree, we pay taxes to help the reduce the number of poor people in the United States of America. Paying Israel with the taxes people pay the country is an unfair way of using tax money; all it does is waste the money instead of using it to help our people.

 @BC3SQWJ from Maryland  agreed…3mos3MO

Agree, taxes should go towards helping our own people before we worry about supporting other countries

 @BC3PSTY from Michigan  agreed…3mos3MO

Slightly we only give money to Israel because of trumps relations to Epstein Israel has corrupted our politics and president we give billions a year to them that could help us better our nation instead. A lot of homeless people don’t want to get there life’s together posted I think the money should go to getting Americans free healthcare like how Canada has it.

 @BC3WBDF from Michigan  agreed…3mos3MO

I agree somewhat, although we should help countries in need when we have made an agreement to have each other's backs

 @BC456YG from Wisconsin  commented…3mos3MO

But we will give money to the needs of America before he hand any money to foreign countries

 @BC3H7HPProgressive  from Arizona  agreed…3mos3MO

Agreed but we should get a choice where our taxes go because currently it mostly goes into military and surveillance spending.

 @BC3L7F3 from Illinois  agreed…3mos3MO

I agree. There are too many problems in our country caused by poor literacy, and the environment is about to collapse. The genocide of Palestine from Israel is morally inexcusable and I want none of my tax dollars going to his reprehensible political motives.

 @RIPCharlieRepublican from Pennsylvania  commented…3mos3MO

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